My family has a very strong history of breast cancer on my fathers side. My great grandmother died at 67 from it, my grandmother died at 55 and my aunt just recently died at 35 from it. With each of them, it has stricken them younger, and it grown faster than the one before. I never thought that I had to worry about it, because it was my fathers grandmother, mother and sister. But it has recently, in the last week been proven that around 50% of women that have breast cancer have gotten the negative genes paternally. I am not really scared, but I have to be logical.
My husband is military, so we have tri-care. I am going to a pre-emptive screening in august to determine my chances of developing it. If I am high risk, I would like to get a double mastectomy and reconstruction. I am not sure if tri-care would cover the re-construction though. Has anyone ever gotten a re-construction through tri-care?? And how does it look? I don't want to end up looking weird there.
2007-06-23
04:57:30
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Elise
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Women's Health